Bellevue Healthcare Strategy (Lux)
Investments in the 40 most attractive healthcare stocks worldwide, regionally diversified and across sub sectors
Profiting from pent-up demand in Emerging Markets as well as from innovation in industrialized countries
Strong focus on quality mid caps and underweight in pharma stocks
Please find a more detailed description of share classes here.
Investment Focus
ISIN-No. LU1477742909
The Bellevue Healthcare Strategy Fund invests in global healthcare companies with innovative business models. Its investment universe consists of biotechnology and pharma companies, medical technology and services companies as well as generics producers that are involved in the development, manufacturing or sale of products and services.
Indexed performance (as at: 16.05.2022)
NAV: USD 217.32 (13.05.2022)
Rolling performance (13.05.2022)
B-USD | Benchmark | |
12.05.2021 - 13.05.2022 | -15.46% | 3.03% |
13.05.2020 - 12.05.2021 | 29.38% | 19.83% |
13.05.2019 - 13.05.2020 | 15.79% | 18.08% |
11.05.2018 - 13.05.2019 | -7.37% | 4.83% |
Annualized performance (13.05.2022)
B-USD | Benchmark | |
1 year | -15.46% | 3.03% |
3 years | 8.18% | 13.38% |
5 years | 8.00% | 10.54% |
Since Inception p.a. | 10.51% | 12.04% |
Cumulative performance (13.05.2022)
B-USD | Benchmark | |
1M | -14.38% | -8.91% |
YTD | -17.08% | -10.61% |
1 year | -15.46% | 3.03% |
3 years | 26.64% | 45.78% |
5 years | 47.02% | 65.12% |
Since Inception | 73.86% | 87.60% |
Annual performance
B-USD | Benchmark | |
2021 | 5.24% | 20.15% |
2020 | 27.05% | 13.52% |
2019 | 22.39% | 23.24% |
2018 | -3.03% | 2.51% |
Facts & Key figures
Investment Focus
The Bellevue Healthcare Strategy Fund invests in global healthcare companies with innovative business models. Its investment universe consists of biotechnology and pharma companies, medical technology and services companies as well as generics producers that are involved in the development, Show moreShow less
Investment suitability & Risk
Low risk
High risk
General Information
Investment Manager | Bellevue Asset Management AG |
Custodian | RBC Investor Services, Luxembourg |
Fund Administrator | RBC Investor Services, Luxembourg |
Auditor | PriceWaterhouseCoopers |
Launch date | 31.10.2016 |
Year end closing | 30. Jun |
NAV Calculation | Daily "Forward Pricing" |
Cut of time | 15:00 CET |
Management Fee | 1.60% |
Subscription Fee (max.) | 5.00% |
ISIN number | LU1477742909 |
Valor number | 33635315 |
Bloomberg | BVBAHBU LX |
WKN | A2ASDK |
Total expense ratio (TER) | 2.20% (29.04.2022) |
Legal Information
Legal form | SICAV Luxembourg jurisdiction |
SFDR category | Article 8 |
Key data (29.04.2022, base currency USD)
Beta | 0.79 |
Volatility | 17.00 |
Tracking error | 10.35 |
Active share | 80.55 |
Correlation | 0.82 |
Sharpe ratio | 0.61 |
Information ratio | -0.42 |
Jensen's alpha | -1.83 |
No. of positions | 44 |
Portfolio
Top 10 positions
Geographic breakdown
Breakdown by sector
Opportunities & Risks
Opportunities
- The fund invests in the 40 most attractive healthcare stocks worldwide.
- Proprietary investment process: Half-yearly company evaluation and rebalancing.
- Underweighting of pharma and US stocks against the relevant healthcare indices.
- Strong focus on quality mid-caps.
- Bellevue - Healthcare pioneer since 1993 and today one of the biggest independent investors in the sector in Europe.
Risks
- Equities are subject to strong price fluctuations and so are also exposed to the risk of price losses.
- The fund may invest in financial instruments that might have a rather low level of liquidity, which can in turn affect the fund’s liquidity.
- Investments in foreign currencies are subject to currency risks.
- Investing in emerging markets entails the additional risk of political and social instability.
- Increased opportunities through possible derivative transactions are accompanied by an increased risk of losses.
Review / Outlook
After the rocky ride during the first two months of the year, March turned out to be a much more pleasing month for most stock markets. The global all-share MSCI World Index advanced 3.1% (in CHF). Healthcare stocks performed even better: the broad MSCI World Healthcare Index rose 5.2% mom. The Bellevue Healthcare Strategy Fund (Lux) delivered a likewise pleasing monthly return of 4.9% (I shares).
The good performance of healthcare stocks can be traced to increasing investor awareness of the industry-specific fallout of the Ukraine war. Repeating a sentence from last month’s Factsheet, Russia and Ukraine are not important countries for most healthcare companies in terms of suppliers or sales. Drug developers showed particularly strong returns in March. The NYSE Arca Pharmaceutical Index gained 7.1% (in CHF). The fund's good performance in March despite its underweighting of large cap pharma stocks was fueled by its biotech investments, for example in Vertex (+13.9%), Horizon Therapeutics (+15.8%) and Halozyme (+12.9%). Besides the general tailwind drug makers enjoyed in March, all three of the aforementioned companies additionally profited from positive readouts of clinical trials of drugs they are developing on their own or with a partner, pleasing regulatory news (Horizon Therapeutics), and a new licensing deal (Halozyme).
The investment process for the Bellevue Healthcare Strategy Fund resembles the rules-based investment process that Bellevue has successfully applied since 2007. In this approach, the 40 most attractive stocks in the healthcare sector worldwide are selected every six months. The Bellevue Healthcare team screens about 600 of the 4000 listed companies in the healthcare sector worldwide based on four quantitative criteria (PEG valuation, price/sales, sales growth and EBITDA/sales) and four qualitative criteria (assessing the company's management, product pipeline, operating risks and country-related risks). The ten most promising stocks from four different regions – Western Europe, North America, Japan/Australia and emerging markets – are selected. The maximum weighting of the region with the highest overall score, which is usually North America, is capped at 35% during the periodic rebalancing, which increases the emphasis given to emerging markets. Companies with rich valuations and low growth rates will rarely be selected for the portfolio. Mid cap stocks have typically represented 60-80% and the Asia region approximately one-third of the portfolio. Pharmaceutical stocks are clearly underweighted compared to the MSCI World Healthcare Index. Bellevue has applied this investment approach since April of 2007 and it is used to compile the Adamant Global Healthcare Index.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results and can be misleading. As the sub-fund is denominated in a currency that may differ than an investor’s base currency, changes in the rate of exchange may have an adverse effect on prices and incomes. Performance is shown net of fees and expenses for the relevant share class over the reference period. Show moreShow less